Deceived By a Sneeze
Now I understand that it doesn't bother anybody right now because they think they see everything anyhow. “Rabbi Miller,” they say, “he's hocking a chinek. He's telling us darkness. Darkness, shmarkness. We see everything.” But actually they see nothing at all. Because they see talmidei chochomim and they see people, human beings, that’s all.
How do you think it happened that people in the Midbar spoke against Moshe Rabbeinu? We read the stories in the Chumash and we are surprised. How could it be such a thing? To speak against the Ish Elokim, the man of Hashem? It seems impossible.
The answer is that Moshe Rabbeinu was a person. He was an Ish Elokim but he was still an ish! That’s the darkness! Moshe Rabbeinu had two eyes and he had a nose and he had lips and he had teeth! That’s the darkness! He was a human being. Do you know how difficult that is? Suppose Moshe sneezed in the middle of his drashah. He never sneezed? I don't know but probably he sneezed. He had to go to sleep sometimes. He had the frailties of a human being. And even if you only saw him in his vigor by day when he was fresh and enthusiastic but still he was a human being. And that’s the darkness that makes us see with a distorted vision, with a vision of apikorsis.
